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Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Kimitsu posted:

It's mostly been mishandled (Oishinbo), or generally underpromoted (Iron Wok Jan) with sales stemming from a pre-existing online fanbase (Drops of God, and maybe Yakitate! Japan, I think) or the niche group who's really into food manga.

But I'd be totally happy to admit it if I were wrong.

Speaking of food manga, have any of you looked into Hell's Kitchen? It's similar in how shounen it is compared to Shokugeki no Soma.

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Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

I am ludicrously pleased whenever I come across anybody who's aware of Iron Wok Jan. Such a wonderfully over-the-top series. So hard to get a hold of the books in the West though. Which is a shame, because I prefer the English translation to the Korean translation.

Iron Wok Jan was the first taste of cooking manga I ever got way back when a local library had the first 15 or so volumes. It was the greatest.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

My high school library had up to volume 5 and for the longest time I thought that was where the series ended, since the cooking tournament ended that volume and it seemed like everything had been resolved.

I only found out that I'd been wrong when I come across Volume 6 in the for-sale bin of a anime / manga shop several years after I graduated. I've only been able to buy two volumes, and had to resort to :filez: of the Korean translation to read the rest. Underpromoted in an understatement in regards to this underrated gem.

Iron Wok Jan was my second cooking manga, and it was so different from the first one - Shouta no Sushi (creatively translated in Korean as Mr. Sushi King) by Terasawa Daisuke - in that Jan was a total and complete prick.

Too bad the West will probably never get the sequel.

Oh drat, I also read a ton of Mr. Sushi King since my family would always have them lying around. Those Korean comic rental places sure came in handy for those kinds of stuff.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Mo_Steel posted:

My prediction is Souma gets a good score, but not the best score. That gives him meaningful rivals and allows him to continue training himself.

Either that or he tries something weird and it tastes loving awful and he loses big time but he just shrugs it off and keeps being awesome. :haw:

My long term prediction is that he finally manages to perfect the peanut butter and jelly squid into one of his greatest hits ever for the finale of the story.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

SatansBestBuddy posted:

Chapter 54

I have completely forgotten who the last guy is. Was he introduced with the rest?

He's part of the Polar Star dorm and the guy whose room the rest of the crew always bums out in.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

SatansBestBuddy posted:

I wonder what Souma's awesome nickname is gonna be? King of Curry? Curry Curator?

Peanut butter and jelly squid curry master :unsmigghh:

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

vibratingsheep posted:

The most likely result is the Nikumi option, where Soma points out that Alice has lost touch with the heart of the cardscooking and forgotten the basics, wowing the judges with something completely mundane and overlooked.


My chef friend tells me that it's very common to test the sharpness of your knives by using it to shave your arm, and when the hair grows back to a certain length it's time to sharpen the knife again.

But you don't grow hair on that side of your arm

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

OneDeadman posted:

Unless I'm some hairy werewolf monstrosity, you totally do though?

Maybe not in huge amounts, but there's certainly hair there.

Isn't Souma Asian? They tend to not have hair there.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Paracelsus posted:

New chapter

If I had to guess the outcome, Erina's dish will be superior in quality, but lose because the tools needed for molecular gastronomy are wrong for the context of bento-making; regular kitchens don't have centrifuges.

I doubt that would be the deciding factor. Bento can still be processed by a company to sell in markets so the idea of regular kitchens being the closing deal is a bit restrictive. Plus we wouldn't have gotten this page if Souma wasn't about to do something that will directly win the battle for him.

Also I literally started laughing at that page, it's actually loving happening

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Oh, so the bubble wasn't actually part of the meal...

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

I prefer my burgers without vegetables, cheese, or buns.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

CVE posted:

He stalks Soma and Soma just gives no fucks and gets into it relatively unprepared because he spent his time trying out weird stuff again which makes the opponent think he is going with it thus leading to the opponent presenting the peanut butter squid or sth. similiarily disgusting and get laughed out of the arena in humiliation.

There's no way Souma will actually try to actively trick Subaru, this is the most likely event and I'm betting this is finally the point where the peanut butter squid becomes important.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

BlitzBlast posted:

I can see it now.

"You copied me... but I'm copying all of my rivals!"

This better turn out like that one time Buso Renkin parodied the whole "I teleported right behind you" joke except with cooking techniques.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

korrandark posted:

It's bad, and it makes me angry because the first was so good.

No kidding, I thought that guy who used to scanlate Bambino was just exaggerating when he said Secondo was a huge slap in the face to the first until someone else started scanlating Secondo. It's really bad.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

No imagery of the card castle being toppled, subpar chapter

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY


Are you sure you're remembering your studios correctly because JC Staff is pretty solid.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

Shokugeki Souma and the Crazy Cooking Competition or Souma Shokugeki and the Crazy Cooking Competition depending on how the whole first name, last name thing works out.

Shokugeki isn't Souma's last name, that's the name of the gourmet battles they engage in.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

SyntheticPolygon posted:

It is not a feud if only one person cares.

Also, I love that one guy with the mohawk and huge sword. Even moreso than most characters he looks like a guy who walked into the wrong manga. :allears:

Literally a character from Hell's Kitchen.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Xelkelvos posted:

It may just need less sweetness overall so you'd just need to water down the apple juice or possibly some apple cider vinegar to cut the sweetness with a sour component (or lemon if vinegar isn't your thing). Different countries and different brands make apple juice a little differently which may be part of the discrepancy. I would be a little wary about extra vegetable stock unless you felt that the dish wasn't salty enough as a whole, but the sweetness of the whole thing probably made that hard to gauge.

trip report: I cut martinelli's apple juice with lemon juice and water at a 2:1:1 ratio (the extra water added because martinelli's is particularly sweet) and it made the resulting risotto amazingly sweet and sour.

I also used diced gala apple which weren't particularly flavorful, but after a light lemon wash they added a good amount of tang to the risotto.

E: Though, I kinda wish I hadn't added apple cider vinegar into it near the beginning. Not a big fan of vinegar, don't know why I even put it in...

Futaba Anzu fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Aug 3, 2015

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Dick Spacious CPA posted:

im glad everyone in the thread is inherently cognizant of tosh's porno works that is why we can discuss how the food orgasm scenes have no place in this manga and dont make us horny when we read them.

the actual food on the other hand sure does

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Jesus, Erina's dad looks like he's straight out of Tokyo Ghoul.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

80% cacao is bordering on the bitter side which would taste amazing in curry.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Neo_Crimson posted:

Maybe but there's a much more obvious one coming up.

nope, gonna have to get to season 2 for that

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Fabricated posted:

Not sure how this is supposed to make anyone like Erina more. It's most of a, "Well okay, that's where she gets it from I guess."

Since the dude's not her guardian anymore you'd think she'd eschew her dad's views in kind of a "gently caress you, dad!" way rather than take on a lighter form of them.

you don't really tend to let go of things you learned as a kid as easily as shaking it off

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Serious Frolicking posted:

So, where does this guy think that chefs get money from? His philosophy makes no sense, as absolutely every person on earth knows that cooking is a service.

the plebeians of society can make do with the leftovers, but only true cooks are deserving of the real food is probably more in line with his thinking.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Okay guys, you know what to do

Give me the "this is a cooking anime" gifs

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Angry Grimace posted:

http://www.mangamint.com/shokugeki-no-soma-137

(actual link to new chapter)

Alice is hilarious in this chapter, but I'm not a huge fan of the obvious whiplash just to get Erina's social circle integrated with the Dorm folk. I really, really hope Soma doesn't end up telling Erina, "I'm here to save you" or something because that would be cringeworthy as gently caress.

Did you not read the chapter? He couldn't give two shits about her condition, he just wants to get her to admit he's hella good at cooking.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

pentyne posted:

Do you have context blindness or something? It's pretty obvious he's going to help her.

i'm actually fully blind, i use a text to speech program to read the chapters, thanks for your insensitivity.

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Wasnt there a hells kitchen (manga) chapter that set up exactly like this and the cook managed to persuade the crowd to try their food because of how impact full the frying gyoza was?

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

SyntheticPolygon posted:

You're forgetting all those amazing faces he made as well. Which were a significant accomplishment in my boojk.

Anyway, over the course of like 5 chapters Eizan became my favourite character and you should not insult him. :colbert:

Insulting him is what gets him to eizanface so you're kind of sending mixed messages here

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Wark Say posted:

Yeah, pretty much. Jouichiro got to meet the lady he wanted to cook for and that was it when it comes to big accomplishment as far as he's concerned.

Man, can it be next week already? I want to see the Nakiris reacting to Souma revealing that Big J is his dad in full Shun Saeki detail.

the true tsundere begins here

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ShadowCatboy posted:

I don't think it's actually homebrewed sake, they're calling it "rice juice." My guess is she's letting cooked glutinous (aka "sweet") rice sit for a while, which allows the starches to break down into their component sugars with maybe some light alcohol fermentation. I don't know about Japan, but Chinese people make something similar called "jiou niang" that is very sweet and slightly alcoholic. My guess is Ryoko's rice juice is essentially nonalcoholic than that and they just have a sweet rice-based beverage, and the joke is that they're getting roaring drunk off of what is essentially sugary rice water.

P.S. Is it all right if we post gratuitous food porn of dishes foodie goons make in here in the future?

korea has something similar called shikhye made by boiling rice with malt water

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

I don't think sikhye is ever alcoholic though.

you could make it alcoholic

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

let's drink alcoholic sikhye together

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Futaba Anzu posted:

let's drink alcoholic sikhye together

if there's one thing i can like about korea and my korean heritage it is that makkeuli is probably my favorite alcoholic beverage

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

ShadowCatboy posted:

My guess is Central dude hosed up by using olive oil. Generally confit dishes are cooked in their own fat. By using olive oil he's potentially diluting out the fats of the salmon and impregnating it with olive oil instead.

They're gonna say that kurokiba utilized the properties of terroir better than flame man and everyone will be amazed

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Elfgames posted:

If this manga were real goons with spoons would be amazing.

a lot of the stuff some of the regulars in goons with spoons already come up with are honestly a ton more impressive than most everything that's been served in sns to be honest

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

whoa i'm there on page 1

hosed up

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Davincie posted:

erina will only foodgasm to souma's dish because it will be made full of love for her

full of love huh

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Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

RareAcumen posted:

I dunno, I tend to call 'sex art stuff' something where people are actually loving. I don't really think being naked is sex.

having literal orgasms is pretty sexual in my op

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